Glastonbury Festival may be taking a fallow year in 2026, according to organiser Emily Eavis. The festival is set to return to Somerset this summer from June 26-30 with Dua Lipa, SZA, and Coldplay confirmed as headliners, and Little Simz, Burna Boy, The Streets, Disclosure, and LCD Soundsystem all set to perform across the four-day festival. The Worthy Farm-based festival periodically takes a year off to allow the functioning cattle farm to rest and regrow, with its last “fallow year” taking place in 2018, and additional years off in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Eavis confirmed the potential fallow year in 2026 during a BBC Sidetracked podcast interview with Nick Grimshaw and Annie Mac, noting that it is important to give the land a rest and for the cows to have time to reclaim their land. She also stated that it offers the public time to switch off and is beneficial not to be seen as cashing in.
During the same podcast interview, Eavis shared how the festival almost ended in the 90s with her father, Sir Michael Eavis, ready to call it quits once he reached retirement age. However, after his wife passed away in 1999, he decided to continue holding Glastonbury on the site, with Emily offering her help.
To listen to the full Sidetracked podcast with Emily Eavis, click here. To view the full Glastonbury 2024 lineup, click here
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